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Police successful Chhattisgarh’s superior Raipur registered an FIR connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) successful transportation with a viral video successful which radical astatine a wedding relation could beryllium seen wielding guns and firing.
Social media reels – that featured celebratory firing by household members of BJP idiosyncratic Monika Singh with the Dhurandar track playing successful the inheritance – sparked a enactment implicit instrumentality and bid successful the State. The relation was held successful Mahadev Ghat.
The video sparked outrage online and a backlash from the Opposition, the section DD Nagar Police past registered an FIR.
“On Tuesday a video went viral connected societal media showing radical firing successful the aerial during a wedding relation astatine Mahadev Ghat, Raipur. Deepak Singh and different individuals were seen deliberately firing from a licensed firearm successful a highly crowded location. This amounts to negligence and a usurpation of the conditions of the firearm license,” said a property connection issued by Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), Sandeep Patel. The idiosyncratic named successful the FIR could besides beryllium seen firing and is related to the BJP worker, said a constabulary officer.
“Prima facie, this constitutes an offence nether Section 125 [acts that endanger quality beingness oregon idiosyncratic safety] and Section 3(5) [Common intention] of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), [2023] and Section 30 of the Arms Act, [1959]. Accordingly, an FIR has been registered against Deepak Singh and others astatine the DD Nagar Police Station, and the substance has been taken up for investigation,” the connection further added.
